Publications
Books
Sample poems
If I Die First - Rust + Moth (2016) Running Late (audio - scroll or CTRL+F ) - Raleigh Review (2014) |
Beautiful Machinery
(Headmistress Press, 2016) Wendy DeGroat’s Beautiful Machinery is a fine collection of intelligent, witty and moving poetry. She is direct without ever being simple. Her ear is excellent and she creates webs of sound. She writes love poems that are sensual and never sentimental. These poems bring you in contact with someone you want to know.
—Marge Piercy, award-winning author of a memoir, 17 novels, and 19 books of poetry, most recently Made in Detroit Wendy DeGroat’s Beautiful Machinery draws its title from “Running Late,” a playful and beautifully wrought poem about the body’s wonders, yet the book maps not just the body. It expands to cover the difficult territory of marriage, divorce, sexuality, feminism, and new love—all with the same tender honesty of the title poem. In “Ode to Spiders” she writes, “Webs etch-a-sketched across the deck, / watch them cast lines, ride the wind.” DeGroat has etch-a-sketched her own lines across traditional themes—and they merit your careful attention. —Sierra Golden, author of Aristotle’s Lantern 
Available in Richmond
at Chop Suey Books in Carytown where they have signed copies! Available online from Headmistress Press or from Amazon |
Poems
Recent work
An Old Richmond Cemetery - Cider Press Review (2017)
On the Addition of a Black Candle to the Center of Our Advent Wreath - Rogue Agent (2016)
Two poems - Algebra of Owls (2016) - received their October 2016 Readers' Choice Award
Marriage Spoon (with photo) - Silver Birch Press (2016)
When My Aunt Asks If I Got a Pistol Permit Yet - Forage (2016) - received a Pushcart nomination
Weeks before the First Anniversary of Marriage Equality - The Brillantina Project (2016)
Three poems - Beltway Poetry Quarterly 17.2 (2016)
From a documentary poetry manuscript in progress
The Training of the Hand - Heron Tree (2016)
Five poems and a poetic research statement - Common-place: a journal of early American life (2016)
Construction Delays, c. 1902 - Richmond Magazine (31 Dec. 2015) - published with article by Harry Kollatz, Jr., entitled "Known by Her Deeds: A Philanthropist Who Made a Difference Gets Her Story Told in Poetry"
Earlier work
Two poems (not available online) - The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature (2016)
Ode to Spiders (not available online) - Mslexia 65 (2015)
Listen (with audio) - TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism 16 (2014)
What Remains (with related photo) - About Place 2.4 (2014)
Gratefulness (not available online) - Sprout (2013)
An Old Richmond Cemetery - Cider Press Review (2017)
On the Addition of a Black Candle to the Center of Our Advent Wreath - Rogue Agent (2016)
Two poems - Algebra of Owls (2016) - received their October 2016 Readers' Choice Award
Marriage Spoon (with photo) - Silver Birch Press (2016)
When My Aunt Asks If I Got a Pistol Permit Yet - Forage (2016) - received a Pushcart nomination
Weeks before the First Anniversary of Marriage Equality - The Brillantina Project (2016)
Three poems - Beltway Poetry Quarterly 17.2 (2016)
From a documentary poetry manuscript in progress
The Training of the Hand - Heron Tree (2016)
Five poems and a poetic research statement - Common-place: a journal of early American life (2016)
Construction Delays, c. 1902 - Richmond Magazine (31 Dec. 2015) - published with article by Harry Kollatz, Jr., entitled "Known by Her Deeds: A Philanthropist Who Made a Difference Gets Her Story Told in Poetry"
Earlier work
Two poems (not available online) - The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature (2016)
Ode to Spiders (not available online) - Mslexia 65 (2015)
Listen (with audio) - TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism 16 (2014)
What Remains (with related photo) - About Place 2.4 (2014)
Gratefulness (not available online) - Sprout (2013)